Contributor |
Fish, G. G. (George Gardner), 1822-1906, artist. |
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Soule, John P., photographer. |
Title |
Emancipation [graphic]. |
Publisher |
[United States] |
Publisher |
UNITED STATES. 1863 |
Date |
[ca. 1863] |
Physical Description |
1 photograph : albumen on card mount ; mount 10 x 6 cm (4 x 2.5 in.) (carte de visite format) |
Description |
Reproduction of a George Gardner Fish allegorical painting celebrating the Emancipation Proclamation (1863) originally photographed
by Boston photographer J. P. Soule. Depicts the white female figure Columbia holding out the Emancipation Proclamation and
standing between a kneeling enslaved African American man and woman (attired in a head wrap). The bare-chested man holds up
the pole of an American flag, while the woman drapes the flag around her naked body. Columbia, attired in a tiara and drapey
gown, also holds a bunch of sprigs of laurel, as well as stands on a whip. A partial view of a wagon wheel is visible in the
left background.
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Notes |
Title from item. |
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Artist and photographer from copy in the collections of the Library of Congress. LC copy "Entered according to Act of Congress,
in the year 1863, by John Sowle [sic], in clerk's office of the District Court for the District of Massachusetts."
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George Gardner Fish was a Nantucket portrait painter who specialized in pastels. He exhibited at the National Academy of Design
between 1858 and 1863.
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John P. Soule was a Boston photographer who also published stereographs and cartes de visite. He served in the Ancient and
Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts at the end of the Civil War.
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Purchased with the Davida T. Deutsch African American History Fund. |
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Description revised 2021. |
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Access points revised 2021. |
Subject |
United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln). Emancipation Proclamation |
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African American men. |
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African American women. |
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Allegorical paintings. |
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Columbia (Allegory) |
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Flags -- American. |
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Slaves. |
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Enslaved men -- United States. |
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Enslaved women -- United States. |
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Kneeling male slave. |
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Kneeling female slave. |
Geographic subject |
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- African Americans. |
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects. |
Genre |
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870. |
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Cartes de visite -- 1860-1870. |
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Reproductions -- 1860-1870. |
Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| cdv - misc. - Civil War - Genre & sentimental [P.2014.22] |
Accession number |
P.2014.22 |